Talk Radio 702 has been granted an application for the amendment of its commercial licence to allow the station to migrate to FM frequencies 92.7 MHz in Johannesburg and 106 MHz in Pretoria. ”It is a historic announcement and the best news we’ve had in 702’s 25-year history,” station manager Pheladi Gwangwa said.
Suffering and sacrifices made during apartheid were not in vain, Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa said at a Human Rights Day rally in Sharpeville, Vereeniging, on Tuesday. The 1960 Sharpeville massacre was a ”watershed moment” that helped bring democracy to South Africa, President Thabo Mbeki said in Rome on Tuesday.
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/ 27 February 2006
R&B sensation Tsakani "TK" Mhinga was on Monday found dead in a Bryanston hotel, northern Johannesburg, police said. "We didn’t find any physical injuries on her body, but we will wait for the post-mortem report and the medical report" to establish the cause of death, a police spokesperson told the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i>.
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/ 9 February 2006
The rock gods snatched Grammy history from the comeback queen on Wednesday, as perennial favourites U2 took home five trophies while Mariah Carey had to settle for three. ”If you think this is going to go to our head, it’s too late,” U2 frontman Bono said after winning song of the year for Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own.
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/ 8 February 2006
The publication of Nova, the four-and-a-half-month-old daily newspaper from the Media24 stable based in Johannesburg, is to be suspended, a statement from Red Ink Publishing on behalf of Nova said on Wednesday. Nova was aimed at young, high-income urban professionals.
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/ 8 February 2006
Readers in the Mail & Guardian Online‘s discussion forums have been sharply divided in the past week regarding the world’s reactions to the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that first appeared in a Danish newspaper last year. The M&G is the only South African newspaper to have printed one of the cartoons.
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/ 1 February 2006
Google has quietly launched a beta version of Google News South Africa, a new section of the popular Google News service that includes a prominent focus on South African news from websites such as the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i>, <i>iAfrica.com</i>, and <i>News24</i>.
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/ 27 January 2006
The press ombudsman has ruled against the Saturday Star newspaper regarding its report on the gay blood debate that started two weeks ago when the discredited Gay and Lesbian Alliance claimed that it had recruited gay men to donate blood without disclosing their sexual activities.
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/ 12 January 2006
The case of who killed the single most important human ancestor has finally been laid to rest after more than 80 years of debate and scientific investigation. The announcement that the Taung child was killed by an eagle was made on Thursday at an international conference held at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
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/ 11 January 2006
Metal pioneers Metallica will be in South Africa in March to perform in one of the biggest international music festivals the country has so far seen. They are the sixth international act to confirm their attendance of the festival, with youth icon Karen Zoid and Fokofpolisiekar already added to the local line-up, organisers said on Wednesday.